amphora

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Object Type
Museum number: 1888,0208.127.d-e
Description: Fragment of black-figure painted pottery amphora (two sherds joined) showing meander and lotus-buds.
Cultures/periods: Attic; Archaic Greek
Production date: 6thC BC
Production place: Made in: Attica (Greece)
Excavator/field collector
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Tell Dafana, "Qasr", east annex (C), chamber 19 A, bench on west side
Materials
Ware
Technique: painted; incised
Dimensions: Height: 4.50 centimetres (max); Width: 12.30 centimetres (max)
Curator's comments: According to Cook in BM CVA 8, BM GR 1888,0208.127a, b and c belong with this fragment, as well as possibly f.; Findspot number '19A W' scratched on the item.BM GR 1888,0208.127.d is B 129.8.5; 1888,0208.127.e is B 129.8.6.
Bibliographic references: Vase / Catalogue of Vases in the British Museum (B129.8.5); CVA British Museum 8 / Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: Great Britain 13, British Museum 8 (Pl. GB 609.16-18) (probably); Leclère and Spencer 2014 / Tell Dafana Reconsidered: The Archaeology of an Egyptian Frontier Town (p.208)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1888
Department: Greek and Roman
Registration number: 1888,0208.127.d-e

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